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Important Italian Glass

13 December 2023

Important Italian Glass

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Dino Martens
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Oriente ewer

Aureliano Toso
Italy, 1954
internally decorated polychrome patchwork glass with copper inclusions, pinwheel and filigrana 10¼ h × 11 w × 7¼ d in (26 × 28 × 18 cm)

estimate: $15,000–20,000

result: $15,120

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provenance: Collection of Odetto Lastra, Union City, NJ | Wright, Important Italian Glass, 9 June 2012, Lot 200 | Private Collection | Wright, Important Italian Glass Including a Private Collection of Works by Fulvio Bianconi, 11 June 2021, Lot 208 | Private Collection
literature: Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, pg. 80 illustrates this work

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

Dino Martens 1894–1970

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Born in Venice in 1894, Dino Martens studied painting and design at the Accademia di Belle Art in Rome. A talented artist, his paintings were exhibited at the Venice Biennale between 1924 and 1930. In the mid-1920s, Martens was a partner and decorator for S.A.L.I.R. and later took a position as designer for Salviati & Co. In 1939, upon returning from the African War, Martens became artistic director for the famed glass firm, Aureliano Toso.

Martens' work for Aureliano Toso has become legendary for its inventiveness, experimentation and excess. His innovative use of oversized murrines, brightly colored metallic powders and fragments of glass rods, all expressed in wildly biomorphic forms, have become synonymous with Murano glass style of the 1950s.

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